Utah

We have been home for from our trip for one week now, and yesterday it hit me that we are back to real life again and I have to say that as much as I love our life here in MI, vacation is more fun. (sorry MI friends, you know I love you, but vacation rocks.) I got a bit of the blues realizing that we get up in the morning, Paul leaves for the whole day and it's just the three of us to hang out together and (again; no offense to my awesome kids) they are fun, but I had even more fun when we shared a house with lots of people that we love.
We got to stop in Utah to see family on our way to and from Oregon. It was only a few days but it was like a big glass of cold water in the desert. I just love these people. I'm glad we will get to spend a bunch of time with them in Dec.


I love this shot of Kristen and her little chip. So pretty!

My mom arranged a trip to a goat and horse farm run by one of her friends. Eirik wanted to see horses of course. We got to milk a goat and try the milk. It was actually very good. I guess goat's milk is much better for the human body than cows milk. The goats were pretty cute too. Joren loved hanging out in the hay and Eirik pretty much complained the whole time because he liked the neighbor's black horse and not the brown horse we came to visit. What a picky child!






My bros Dave and Daniel got a rad new motorcycles and they let Paul ride them. Paul turned into a man obsessed. Those few moments rekindled Paul's true love. For the two weeks I was in MO all Paul did was research motorcycles. He found all the best gear, the best deals, looked into safety classes and licenses and emailed me all the links. Thanks brothers because even though Paul was sexy before, now he is super sexy.


Is Davy wearing blue socks? Yeah, he's cool. That's a mark of character if you didn't know.

This was the best shot I got. 5 of us look pretty unprepared, but everyone else looks good. Sorry mom and dad and Paul.. he he he
My boys and their adorable cousins! What a fun time. The red heads together at last. :)
We had a fun dinner on the porch. My mom made roast. Is there a trend here?

And we got to celebrate Davy's birthday! Happy B-day brother!
We thought his new cute girlfriend was pretty adorable. Hey Becca!

My bro Dave took one look at our ghetto setup and died laughing. Yes, we are that cheap. We didn't buy the equipment to play our IPOD through our car speakers so we scotch taped the computer speakers to the headrest. There are a few problems with this, the biggest one being that only the person driving can hear the music. So Davy hooked us up with the cassette tape with cord that hooks into the IPOD. What a sweetie. Plus he totally hooked us up with some great new tunes for the road. The scotch tape came in handy on more than one occasion on this trip. The other most memorable one was when I scotch taped my sunglasses to my glasses. (No picture available of this atrocity, however if you wish to laugh at me, be my guest.) I long for the day of lasik. ahhh... that will be great.
We also learned on this trip that those chargers that plug into your cig lighter are awesome for road trips. We kept our IPOD, phones, and comp all charged the whole way. What a deal. (Thanks Anona for the lend)